Publishing activity tasks in a collaborative environment

A unified activity manager for use in a collaborative environment comprising:

• the unified activity manager executing in memory of a computing system with at least one processor and memory, the unified activity manager comprising:
• an activity list view comprising a listing of activities, each of said activities comprising at least one activity task;
• an activity view comprising a rendering of properties associated with a selected activity in said activity list view;
• a persons and roles view comprising at least a listing of collaborators available for association with said selected activity in said activity list view;
• and,
• an activity task publication module, the activity task publication module executing in memory of the computing system and comprising program code enabled to select one or more activity tasks in an activity displayed in the activity list view of the unified activity manager for display in the activity view, the unified activity manager rendered in a user interface of the computing system, the activity view comprising a concurrent visual rendering of properties including the listing of collaborators and a listing of collaborator roles for the activity task selected in the unified activity manager and to publish on request of a publishing collaborator the selected activity tasks for status viewing by other collaborators on a bulletin board executing in memory of the computer system in the collaborative environment.